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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
World
People
Easily
Went
Came
Wrong
Death
Something

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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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